Mikhail Zhornitzki was born in Tomashpol, Ukraine (USSR), 1930 to Boris and Sluva. He was a pupil and child. Prior to WWII he lived in Tulchin, Ukraine (USSR). During the war he was in Pechora, Ukraine (USSR). Mikhail survived the Shoah.
Jews deported to or imprisoned in camps, ghettos or forced labor frameworks, who were in hiding, in clandestinity or resistance formations, or suffered relentless persecution under antisemitic legislation in territories controlled by the Nazis or their allies, and were alive by the end of 1945 are considered Shoah survivors.